EKOCHIC redesign project

Marja Haapakangas and Riitta PajalaTSYK highschool, TURKU

Starting points and goals of the project

and their connection to the practice …

• Environmental awareness• Sustainable consumption, sustainable

development

• Art-historical and human-historical aspect

• Values which are bounded to clothes. And understand the meanings and practices of sustainable design.

• Combination of visual designing and costume designing.

• Development of social and teamwork skills

• Clothes supporting identity.

Where can you find a friend? ---NOWHERE

Tell about the idea of your dress“ This girl has had a hard childhood, She’s discriminated in school. Cold and cruel world has ripped up her soul. She´s alone in this world but now she has rised in rebellion against the world.”Make up and hear: “Hair open, strong eyeliner, black eyeshadow, red lipstick”Wish for music: “Marilyn manson-Fight song”Wish for coreography: “No smile, self-confident walking, maybe a bit arrogant”

• Interartistic method

• The roles of youth culture as a resource.

• Human images and fashionimages which offer an alternative for those images which commercial media represents.